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DELORIS KOAN | Keep running with our children on our shoulders, showing them a better world

Out there it is dark. Lots of trumpeting and trampling. Our society is changing. I look for a sign. You know me, on that plastic bucket, parking off doing motorcycle ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Differences between ‘sleeping in’ and ‘sleeping ...

“Is there any mayonnaise?” This question, accompanied with incredulity — on all sides — was asked in the wilderness. It referenced two slices of ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Parenting in the wilds is best investment

Family. Far from perfect. Often disastrous. Here in Nieu-Bethesda an investment matures. Not money — that is for the very crass and emotionally ...

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DELORIS KOAN | I will never forget this good ...

“Please don’t mow the lawn near us from 2pm to 4pm. Our Cefani siesta tradition is 60 years old.” This is what I “texted” to Lindsay Cairns’ grandsons who continue in his steps keeping this hearthstone rest and recreation collection of wizened ...
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DELORIS KOAN | 'Surfers' is one of the greatest ...

Let's not deny it; society has entered an unhinged dimension. In the corner of our mind — or at the forefront, the threat of a collapse of the American empire has chilled many of us to the core. Watching the daily incursions into the US state ...
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DELORIS KOAN | Life, like a ship, is all about the b-a-a-ack and forth, b-a-a-ack and ...

Damn! I am doing it! Find myself leaning lakka into the 250m-long corner of Settlers Way heading out of town towards ...

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DELORIS KOAN | When reverie turns to revving

Reverie. It’s how my friend MC swims way out in the ocean. I admire her ability to dive within and roam peacefully ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Push back against techno-feudalism, support the feral cat women

“How about we close our eyes. A letter, an invitation, to come away. To start again.” Humane people will be tjanking ...

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Case family’s link with first-ever SA Grand Prix in East London

As South Africa begins the bidding to host a Formula One Grand Prix, Kyalami will inevitably feature as a ...

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DELORIS KOAN | LA ‘firenado’ hands out another climate change warning

Allrighty, so that is done then. Now that giant chunks of Los Angeles have become a raging inferno, the issue of ...

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DELORIS KOAN | We dads and hacks salute you, Lewis James!

A tree has fallen. An indigenous tree. The first and only reader of this column, Lewis James, has passed on to a ...

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It is a time of family and feasting for Tsolo’s Rode

He was the last man standing on the latest season of MasterChef SA and now Tsolo-born Lona Rode is gearing up to cook ...

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A slow-roast Christmas for the Roasted Dad

It’s going to be a slow roast kind Christmas for MasterChef SA 2022 winner Shawn Godfrey who is looking forward to ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Hot stone and cool Karoo waters

When you are sitting on an ellipse-shaped varnished bench in a kitchen wearing only your Oddballs underwear and your ...

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DELORIS KOAN | HO HO! SANTA IS GOING SOLO

I will be alone this Christmas. Nobody is allowed to invite me in like a stray for I have made a momentous ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Gilded celestial shriek takes centre stage

The Guild was gilded in gold. For two nights I did not sit in faded felt seats, some that fall further down than ...

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DELORIS KOAN | The fiery hell of ‘development’

Look, we have to point out the fibs but my early morning tour of the beachfront bellowed them. This is the era of ...

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DELORIS KOAN | A day in the life in these sands of time

Today it feels like the darkness where no light gets in. That is a line from Territory, a wonderful Australian ...

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Return to the Hogsback Gardens for the roses

The Hogsback Open Gardens returns for its second round of spring blooms, and this time it’s for the roses.  The ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Christmas miracle comes early for Quigney

Isn’t it time for something to work? Don’t we need more than tinsel and the jingle of tills? We need a good story, ...